Of the Poles.
THe Poles are the Pricks or Specks at both ends of the Axis, or two Points which [ 20] terminate the said Axis, for every Line is termi∣nated by two Points. Or the Poles are two Points that are directly at the top and bottom of either of the two great Meridians, and are distant from the Aequator 90 Degrees. In these two Points all the Merdians meet.
In the Sphaere there are two Poles, the Artick, and Antartick, which are called the Im∣moveable Points of the Vniverse about which the Heavens are turned. [ 30]
The Artick, or North Pole, is frequently visible to us in Europe, and to the greatest part of Asia: The Antartick, or Southern Pole, is not to be seen to us, as being opposite to the Artick, so that it is visible to our Antipodes.
There are 10 Circles of the Sphaere, viz. fix great, and four lesser▪ of which the Pole are rec∣koned; and the lesser Circles have their Centers contrary to that of the Sphaere, which is the rea∣son that they do not divide it into two equal [ 40] parts, as the Polar Circles, Artick and Antortick, and likewise the Tropicks of Capricorn and Can∣cer.
The Artick is one of the less Circles of the Sphaere, which describes the Pole of the Zodiack when it moves about the Artick Pole; The An∣tartick is that which describes the other Southern Pole of the Zodiack about the Antartick Pole of the Vniverse.